Free People of Colour of the United States in Africa, under the direction of the President of the United States. 2. That the Governor of this State be requested to transmit a copy of the foregoing resolution, to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress, and to the Governors of the several States. Mr. Noble of Indiana, presented to the Senate of the United States, a joint Resolution of the Legislature of the State of Indiana, recommending the American Colonization Society to the patronage of Congress. The memorial of the Colonization Society is now before the Legislatures of Massachusetts and New York, and we have much reason to believe that both of these powerful States will recommend its object to the favour and patronage of the National Government. The subject of affording aid to the American Colonization Society, has, during the year past, been before the State Legislatures of Maryland, North Carolina, and Louisiana. (No. 6.) Memorial to Congress. It is well known to those who have examined the History of the origin and progress of the Colonization Society, that the powers and resources of the National Government, have been regard-, ed by most of its Friends as alone adequate to complete the design of African Colonization. The Managers of the parent Institution have repeatedly sent in their petitions to Congress, and with the sanction of many State Legislatures invited that body to take into consideration the claims of their object to the patronage of the Representatives of the people of the United States. The memorials of the Society have, generally, been treated with respect, and several committees to whom they have been referred, have made reports highly favourable to the views of the petitioners. In both Houses, it is believed, the cause of the Society has been rapidly gaining strength. Almost every year has witnessed some addition to the number of States which 8 have through their Legislatures instructed their Senators and requested their Representatives to give their support in Congress to the object of the Society. But the time has arrived when this subject demands the more general and serious attention of the American people. The State Society of Kentucky has resolved to second the efforts of the Parent Institution, by presenting its own memorial, with the signatures of citizens from various parts of the State, to Congress, and soliciting that body no longer to neglect the appeals made to it in behalf of a great enterprise, most intimately connected with the welfare of our country as well as sanctioned by the most obvious dictates of national justice and humanity. We hope the example of our Friends in Kentucky will be imitated by all the Auxiliary Societies in the Land. Let the people of the United States speak out in tones of solemn earnestness in behalf of the scheme of African Colonization.Their voice will be heard; and the energies and resources of the Government be brought to complete a work, begun in weakness, but unspeakably important to this country and full of blessings for another. LIFE MEMBERS Of the Colonization Society, by the contribution of $30, or upwards, at one time, to the funds of the Institution. Baltimore. Charles Carroll of Carrolton J ND Arey and H Didie John E Howard Robert Gilmor Thomas Elliott Andrew Ellicott Robert G Harper John Barr RH Douglass* Hon J Marshall Frederick county, Va. Philip Burwell Wm Garnegy Nathaniel Burwell John Kerfoot James Somers Miss Judith Blackburn Hon Robert White Rev JN Maffit, Dover, N. H. Rev Stephen Gano Rev Nathan B Crocker Nicholas Browne, Rev Orville Dewey, Newport, Mass. Rev F Freeman, Plymouth, Mass. Portland, Maine. Rev S Ten Broeck Rev Mr Ripley Rev A Cummings Rev Charles Dresser Gen Edward Carrington Rev A Jones, Charlestown, Va. Fredericksburg, Va. Hon Hugh Mercer Mrs Louisa Mercer John Gray, JC Herbert, Maryland. do. Rev Mr Douglass, Alfred, Maine. JB Skinner, Edenton, N. C. Sarah Cleves, Saco, Maine. Schenectady, N. Y. Rev Eliphalet Nott, DD E F Backus, New Haven, Conn. Rev Dr Bullions do. Rev J Allan, Huntsville, Alabama. Rev Jno R Crane Rev Mr Cookson Geo W Campbell, Millsburg, Mass. Rev Richard Bibb, Russelville, Ky. Thomas Buffington, Guyandott, Va. Gov. E. Cole, Edwardsville, Illinois. *Dead. NOTE. We shall be thankful to our friends to enable us to supply what is deficient, or correct what is erroneous in this list. Some may have been made Life Members by contributions to Auxiliaries, of which we are not informed. |